The Writing Workshop: Working Through the Hard Parts (And They're All Hard Parts)

by Ray, Katie Wood; Laminack, Lester L.

• ISBN13: 9780814113172
• ISBN10: 0814113176
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Natl Council of Teachers of

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	xi
Understanding the Essential Characteristics of the Writing Workshop	1	(16)
The Necessity of a Writing Workshop in a Day Already Full of Writing	17	(12)
Teaching and the Development of Writing Identities	29	(12)
The Tone of Workshop Teaching	41	(10)
Time in the Workshop as a Predictable Event	51	(8)
Getting Started with Independent Writing Time	59	(14)
Managing Predictable Distractions in the Writing Workshop	73	(12)
Understanding That Slightly Out-of-Hand Feeling in the Workshop	85	(8)
Getting Ready to Teach	93	(14)
The Nature of Workshop Curriculum	107	(14)
Teaching a Whole Class of Very Individual Writers	121	(8)
Whole-Class Units of Study in the Writing Workshop	129	(12)
Focus Lessons: Whole-Class Teaching in the Writing Workshop	141	(14)
Conferring: The Essential Teaching Act	155	(18)
Making Share Time A Better Time	173	(14)
The Writing Workshop Teacher's Plan Book	187	(24)
Assessment and Evaluation: The Questions Become the Curriculum	211	(20)
On Loving Worksheets in the Writing Workshop	231	(20)
Publish or Perish, and Predictable Problems along the Way	251	(20)
Suggested Readings	271	(6)
Authors	277